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DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINE OR MOTOR. No. 461,979. Patented Oct. 27, 1891.

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UNITED STATES MAX MAYER, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE OR MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,979, dated October27, 1891.

Application filed May 5, 1891. Serial No. 391,635. (No model.)

T to whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX MAYER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of New York, county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvementsin Electric Motors or Dynamos, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to the construction of the field-magnet andframe of a dynamo or electric motor.

The object of the invention is to provide means whereby the manufactureof efficient electric machines for generation and power mav becheapened.

The invention in all its details is set forth in the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation in which the left-hand portion is invertical central seotion. Fig. 2 illustrates the armature andfield-magnet laminze by themselves in front elevation. Fig. 3 is a planof the complete machine in so far as my invention is concerned. Thecollecting-brushes and other well-known and necessary adjuncts areomitted. Fig. 4: is a front elevation of the machine shown in Fig. 3.The dotted lines show certain interior constructions.

The base-plateof the machine consists of a casting having a horizontalplate a and side rectangular frame I), inclosing the space 0, which isseparated from a box (I, one of whose sides is formed by one side I) ofthe frame 1). A standard 6 rises from the left hand of the plate a, anda standard e rises from the base-plate at the right of the box (Z. Thetops of these standards 6 and c are planed fiat to support the castingswhich carry the bearings ff for the shaft y. The space or box 0 has itsopening at the bottom and the box d has its opening at the top of thebase-plate casting. The whole base-plate is in one casting. The interiorlength of the box 0 should be equal to or preferably slightly greaterthan the exterior length of the box d.

The field-magnet core consists of laminated plates 72/, of the shapeshown in full in Fig. 2. Each plate has a yoke h, limbs h, andpolepieces h. The distance between the limbs h is slightly greater thandouble the thickness of the windings of either field-magnet coil i, andthe pole-pieces h of each lamina consist of extensions provided withareshaped recesses for portions of the armature m. The extensions orpole-pieces h are no greater in width than the limbs, so that the coilsi may first be wound upon spools "L" and the latter placed upon orremoved from the limbs, as occasion requires. Before the coils are thusapplied boltsn are put into the box 0 and then passed through the box (1and through yokes h, which fit snugly in the said box (Z. After thecoils are slipped upon the limbs h the bolts 12. are put through thepole-pieces 71/ and fastened thereto by nuts 0.

The upper castings for carrying the bearings ff, and which are supportedupon the lower casting or base-plate, consist of boxes 1), cast withlower flanges q, which are bolted to the standards e c. Above theboxes 1) are oil-cups j, in which are suspended rings 19, supportedloosely on the shaft g, for the purpose of feeding oil to the shaft,beyond each end of which is a groove 0' in each bearing ff, in which theoil slung out by centrifugal force is caught and conducted by hole sback to the oil-cup. A groove r is in each bearing near the oppositeend, which also collects the oil for its passage through the hole 8'into the oil-cupj.

Fig. 2 shows a lamina of the field-magnet and armature just as they areafter stamping them simultaneously from a single sheet of wrought-iron.

I claim as my invention In a dynamo or electric motor, the combinationof a base-plate provided with two cavities c and d, the former openingdownward and the latter upward, standards 6 e at opposite endssupporting castings which carry the shaft-bearings f f, field-magnetlaminated cores having limbs 70" of a given width and polar extensions hthereto of the same width, yokes h for the field-magnet core, fitting inthe cavity (1 and fastened therein by bolts 'n, the cavity 0 beinggreater than the length of the bolts '12., field-magnet coils slippedupon said magnet-limbs, and bolts '11, passing through and bolted to thepolar extensions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 27th day of April, 1891.

MAX MAYER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. THOMPSON, GEORGE T. Mm'rr.

